Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself–a tale of new beginnings,romantic and family relationshipsand the comfort that can be found in books. Translated By Eric Ozawa Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence–until the day her charming boyfriend Kashikoithe man she expected to wedcasually announces he’s been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. SuddenlyTakako’s life is in freefall. She loses her jobher friendsand her acquaintancesand spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despairshe receives a call from her distant uncle Ojisan. An unusual man who has always pursued something of an unconventional lifeespecially after his wife Momoko left him out of the blue five years earlierOjisan runs a second-hand bookshop in JimbochoTokyo’s famous book district. Takako once looked down upon Ojisan’s life. Nowshe reluctantly accepts his offer of the tiny room above the bookshop rent-free in exchange for helping out at the store. The move is temporaryuntil she can get her old life back. But in the months that followTakako surprises herself when she develops a passion for Japanese literaturebecomes a regular at a local coffee shop where she befriends a graduate studentand eventually meets a young editor from a nearby publishing house who’s going through his own messy breakup. But just as she begins to find joy againKashikoi reappearsforcing Takako to rely once again on her unclewhose own life has begun to unravel. Togetherthese seeming opposites work to understand each other and themselves as they continue to share the wisdom they’ve gained in the bookshop.